The messages from MJ always shake my soul...His messages and the reality he had been seen was always ahead of the world's time.
I couldn't stop my tears to watch Michael Jackson Tribute Live in Tokyo on DVD!!!
What an amazing ENERGY the talented artists give to people when they put 120% MAX of their concentrations with deep appreciation & love to the star☆....!!!!
I miss you Michael....*** !!!
Can't stop loving you ♥.
The view from my studio....oh my god, I'm soo glad I did grocery shopping yesterday!
Very first snowman in Koushirou's life, we made it together. With the SCANDLE which my friend from Parsons produced. Pure Japanese tea flavor! Smells amazing!
Better to stay warm inside now...too cold!
on the way to my parents house.
The early morning at my parents house. The view from the living room window. The bird tree looks so beautiful with crows in black & white view!


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Q: CORB Batch process output Report Extraction issue   While running the CORB job, I am  Extracting 100,000 URI's and loading the
data in one file at Linux server. The expectation is all the output records    should be store in one file with 100k count. However The data was stored in    multiple files with different counts. Can anyone help me out with root cause    why the CORB process is creating multiple files in the output directory?
Please find the details of the CORB properties file that I configured in my local directory
Properties file :
THREAD-COUNT=4
PROCESS-TASK=com.marklogic.developer.corb.extension.ResilientTransform
SSL-CONFIG-CLASS=com.marklogic.developer.corb.TwoWaySSLConfig
SSL-PROPERTIES-FILE=/eiestore/ssl-configs/common-corb-sslconfig.properties
DECRYPTER=com.marklogic.developer.corb.HostKeyDecrypter
MODULE-ROOT=/a/abcmodules/corb-process/
MODULES-DATABASE="abcmodules"
URIS-MODULE=corb-select-uris.xqy
XQUERY-MODULE=corb-get-process.xqy
PROCESS-TASK=com.marklogic.developer.corb.ExportBatchToFileTask
PRE-BATCH-TASK=com.marklogic.developer.corb.PreBatchUpdateFileTask
EXPORT-FILE-TOP-CONTENT=Id,value,type
EXPORT-FILE-DIR=/a/b/c/d/

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How do you charge your Apple Devices ( iPhone X/8/8+)?.
Alot of chaging method has being available by technology giant, some are for fun and some are for those who might not like touching electricity, and some are for accidental protection. Which ever one you choose will perfectly work ranging from wireless charging to USB charging, for me this variety of charging method and choice option is one of the best innovation in apple devices so far.


MSD Brownsville conducts Marine Safety & Pollution Response activities from Port Mansfield south to the Rio Grande River; 50 miles inland and 200 nautical miles offshore. This area covers numerous facilities, marinas, and three ports, including an International Port of Entry. Major waterways include the Brownsville Ship Channel, Rio Grande River, Arroyo-Colorado River, and the ICW from Port Isabel to Port Mansfield.
MSD Brownsville is co-located with the Port of Brownsville Police, next to the main entrance to the Port of Brownsville.


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Is Uber really worth $40 billion?
My Bloomberg colleague Serena Saitto broke the news today that Uber could soon be valued at between $35 billion and $40 billion, and you might be tempted to hold up the ride-sharing company as the poster child for irrational technology exuberance.
After all, Uber raised money at an $18 billion valuation in June, and it's pretty rare for a company to double in value in just six months. At $35 billion, Uber would be worth as much to the market as Salesforce.com, an arguably overvalued software stock.
But Uber's whopper valuation also says something about its reach and utility, and it reflects how much more valuable tech companies can be when they become integral to our offline lives.
Facebook, for instance, built a massive network on our computers and mobile phones, but at the end of the day all that company does is transport bits, emotions and stories across the Internet. It's one of the best Internet companies available to public investors, and it has a market cap of about $216 billion.
On the other hand, Apple's iPhone is undergoing a transformation from a handheld computer to a remote control for the real world that can track our medical information, pay for our purchases and potentially connect and control our appliances. That's part of the reason why Apple's stock is reaching all-time highs and the company has a market cap of nearly $700 billion.
That brings us back to Uber, a company that moves humans and vehicles to and fro across a global network of roads and highways. It currently provides a backstop for weak public transit infrastructures, while wage stagnation and persistently high unemployment have also helped make driving for Uber an attractive option for cash-strapped workers. All of those factors helped create the conditions for a company like Uber to exist, and also laid the groundwork for a massive, global logistics network.
When looked at from that perspective, is it so surprising that the company could be worth as much as Delta or the railroad company CSX? In theory, there's little preventing Uber from making the same aggressive push into commercial transportation and delivery that it has already made in personal transportation.
Uber is also a successful software company that's amassing a huge trove of data about its users. While the company's data collection practices are, correctly, under fire, that still doesn't take away from the fact that the information it has about our real world lives is just as valuable - perhaps even more valuable - than what companies like Facebook glean from our social network "likes."
At a time when everyone from Wal-Mart to General Motors is trying to turn their retail and manufacturing businesses into data-driven tech companies, Uber in some important ways has already beaten them to the punch.
I'm not saying that there's no way that Uber is overvalued. If, for example, regulators decided that the company had to change its insurance policies or treat drivers as employees that could certainly have a big, negative impact on its valuation. Yet Uber remains one of the few start-ups that bridges our online and offline worlds so well.
Rideshare competitor Lyft, home rental company Airbnb and the loan platform Lending Club are also good examples of companies that have real-world reach. They, too, have high, multi-billion valuations. But private investors are currently betting that Uber will be the most successful of the lot.
Uber still needs to show that it can also succeed in a real, offline world by meeting the needs of regulators, employees, drivers and customers. The company's been under fire lately for everything from its combative relationship with the media to privacy concerns. Now a Federal judge has asked Uber CEO Travis Kalanick, to turn over his emails as part of a lawsuit that alleges the company deceived customers about driver gratuities. How Uber handles all of these issues will also affect its stratospheric valuation.
In the meantime, Uber has earned some important portion of its valuation - maybe even all of it - by having a vital, offline existence. Other start-ups can learn something from that.
The author is a Bloomberg View columnist who writes about technology, innovation, and the cult and culture of Silicon Valley.
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Bronbeek Museum in Arnhem is the museum of the colonial past of the Netherlands in the Dutch East Indies. Central to the history of the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL) and the colonized opponents. The Bronbeek Museum aims to increase knowledge and awareness of the Dutch colonial past. The Story of India is a permanent exhibition on the history of Dutch colonial presence in Southeast Asia. The emphasis is on the Second World War and decolonization. Besides the impact on the Indian community it also addresses the military action by the Dutch colonial rulers. Central to the story are the Japanese time, Proklamasi of the Republic of Indonesia and the Great Awakening. In temporary exhibitions, themes from the permanent exhibition are shown in depth.
From Tuesday till Sunday the museum is opened from 10am to 5pm.
Admission fees for adults is 6 euro's.


A specified time span, also referred to as the optimal or sensitive period, during which certain events or experiences must occur in order for the development of an organism to proceed normally.
Although this term is used in a variety of contexts, the term is most closely associated with ethology, the study of animal behavior in its natural environment from the perspective of evolutionary adaptation. The critical period plays an important role in the concept of imprinting, first used by Konrad Lorenz in connection with the earliest process of social attachment in young animals. (However, the term imprinting is also applicable to any irreversible behavioral response acquired early in life and normally released by a specific triggering stimulus or situation.) In the most famous example of imprinting, Lorenz demonstrated that exposure to an appropriately maternal object during a critical period would activate the "following" instinct of newborn goslings: he successfully had a group of goslings follow him after he "impersonated" their absent mother.
Other examples of critical periods include the initial four months of life during which puppies must be exposed to humans in order to make good pets and the early months in which birds must be exposed to the characteristic song of their species in order to learn it. Critical periods vary in length: the period for identifying one's mother may last only a few hours, while the period for learning to identify a mate may take several months.
The specifically human phenomenon of language development also appears to be subject to a critical period. So-called "wild" or "feral" children deprived of human society for an extended period show that they have been unable to catch up on language due to lack of exposure early in life.
The term "critical period" is also used to describe physiological as well as behavioral phenomena. For example, the embryonic stage in humans is a critical period for certain types of growth (such as the appearance of the heart, eyes, ears, hands, and feet) which must occur for prenatal development to proceed normally.
Denny, M. Ray. Comparative Psychology: Research in Animal Behavior. New York: Dorset Press, 1970.
Lorenz, Konrad. The Foundation of Ethology. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1981.


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Writer-director Michel Hazanvicius and actors Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo of OSS 177: Cairo, Nest of Spies are back, this time in a film set in the late 1920s and early 1930s. And once again Hazanavicius uses cinematic techniques appropriate to the time, to the point of making the film silent, black and white, in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio, and with the technical credits in the opening titles.
The story begins in 1927, with the protagonist, George Valentin (Dujardin), on top of the world, an immensely popular and likable silent film action star in the mold of Douglas Fairbanks. Just after his latest successful premiere he meets an appealing young woman named Peppy Miller (Bejo) and helps her get a start in the movies. They're clearly attracted to each other, but Valentin is married, so nothing comes of it.
In reality, a lot of silent-era actors and filmmakers did indeed dismiss sound as a gimmick that if anything took away from the art of motion pictures, the way many today react to 3D or Smell-O-Vision or would be less than enthusiastic about a recorded soundtrack accompanying a painting or a sculpture. Charlie Chaplin couldn't envision his Tramp character in a speaking role, and in 1931, after Hollywood had otherwise fully completed its rapid transition to silent, he released his most financially and critically successful silent film, City Lights.
At one point Valentin overhears Peppy Miller, by now a major new movie star, attacking silent movies and their style of acting as ludicrous and outdated. He's offended, but it also helps convince him that his career is over.
To belabor the obvious, there are echoes here of Singin' in the Rain and A Star is Born, but the similarities superficial, and in the case of the former almost nonexistent (but see the bit of trivia below).
Today many of us have little appreciation for silent cinema, which as with many arts is an acquired taste. So I was pleasantly surprised that The Artist was well received not just by critics and fans of classic film but also by audiences, many of whom have probably never seen a sound film before. I've found that watching a silent film with an audience can make a big difference in one's reaction to a movie, even more than with a sound film. If you haven't seen The Artist yet I recommend it, but if possible see it with a group of friends.
By the way, Peppy's mansion isn't a studio set; it was actually Mary Pickford's home before she married Douglas Fairbanks, and the bed you see is really Mary Pickford's bed. In another connection with the past, Dujardin and Bejo practiced their dance numbers in the same studio used by Debbie Reynolds and Gene Kelly to rehearse for Singin' in the Rain.


We are comfortably relaxed in the knowledge that many animals are vegetarians; it may be a little more difficult to accept the fact that, widely scattered over the world, there are number of plants that are carnivorous, or at least insectivorous. We cannot help feeling that this is rather shocking behaviour on their part, and the fact that various pitcher-plants inhabiting a great part of the world from North America to Northern Australia have a highly coloured and uncorseted appearance confirms us in a secret conviction that they are no better than they should be. If, however, we were to pick a Sundew (Drosera rotundifolia) flower which is like a small white saxifrage, or a butterwort, which resembles a violet, and we are to examine these flowers apart from their cunning and ingenious insect-trapping leaves, we should think that they were 'nice' flowers indeed.
This small, carnivorous (insect-eating) plant is found widely throughout Europe and in Britain, where it grows in the poor, acidic soils of bogs, damp uplands, moorlands and woodlands. It is a small perennial herb growing up to 8 inches tall and needs to trap insects for extra nutrients as the soil in which it grows is so poor. It is remarkable for its leaves, which are covered with long red hairs, each with a small, fluid-containing gland at the top. When the sun shines on the leaves it resembles dew, hence the name "Sundew". The genus name "Drosera" comes from a Greek word meaning "dew". An insect landing on the leaf is trapped because this curls over inwards, and the sticky fluid (Sap) secreted by the hairs holds it fast. The secretion contains proteolytic enzymes that digest the body and the nutrients absorbed by the plant! The small white flowers of Sundew are fully opened in early morning but close up when the sun shines strongly.
As early as the 13th century, alchemists noted positive results from the use of Sundew's sap in the treatment of consumption, or tuberculosis. In 16th century John Gerand, England observed in his "Herbal" "Physicians have thought this herb to be rare and a single remedy for consumption of the lungs". Today herbalists recommend Sundew sap for soothing coughs due to irritation and prescribe it for antispasmodic properties and it would also help in stopping cough, as in case of whooping cough.
It was noticed that sheep which inadvertently cropped Sundew, developed a paroxysmal type of cough .It was investigated and proved as a remedy for this (whooping cough-pertusis) illness in Homoeopathy, and the whole plant is used to prepare the medicine. Any condition in which there is a violent, dry, persistent barking cough of a spasmodic nature as in whooping cough, benefits from the use of Sundew, which has a particular action on the upper respiratory tract. Accompanying symptoms are gagging, sickness, sweating and nosebleeding. It is also used to treat bronchitis, asthma, corns and warts growing painful and pain in the bones. The symptoms are worse from being too warm in bed, after midnight, while crying, lying down, laughing, singing, and talking. Symptoms improve out in the fresh air, with walking or gentle exercise, sitting probed up in bed, with pressure applied to the painful part and quite surroundings.
Drosera rotundifolia was introduced in our Materia Medica by Dr. S. Hahnemann.He, in the Fragmenta, (1805) wrote 40 symptoms, in the 1st edition of the Materia Medica Pura (1811) 279 symptoms and in the IInd edition of Materia Medica Pura (1823) 287 symptoms.Dr.Hahnemann was aided in this proving by Gutmann, Friedrich Hahnemann, Langhamer and Wislicenus.Drosera became famous as a remedy for whooping cough by Hahnemann's own recommendation based on observation of Wislicenus, one of the provers.Hahnemann says , "a single dose is quite sufficient for the homoeopathic cure of epidemic whooping cough, according to the indications given by symptoms 135,137,144,149, but especially 145 and second part of symptom 143".
Lastly, some interesting notes about Drosera.
The famous English Naturalist Charles Robert Darwin(1809-1882), found that the Sundew can be excited when a piece of thread is laid on it weighing no more than 1/78,000 of a grain. The highest sensitiveness character of Sundew exactly appear in our Materia Medica as a proving symptom, i.e. "Pain as from bruise, excessively distressing sensitiveness, paralytic weakness in all limbs".
A delightful belief was that silver when put into the distilled water of Sundew turned to gold. In Ayurvedic system of medicine, Drosera plant is used in the preparation of gold bhasma.
Dr. P. F. Curie (1799-1853) a famous Homoeopath explained that he had slowly poisoned three cats with daily doses of Drosera. Diarrhoea at the commencement, and weakness of voice about six week later, and on post-mortem both lungs were studded with true tubercle bacilli. One cat's mesenteric glands enlarged and another's sub-maxillary glands, with the solitary glands of the large intestine.


Adam's Jungle Cacti is a small private collection of epiphitic plants, most of which originate from Central and South America, with a handful from Madagascar, Africa, Sri-Lanka, India, SE Asia etc.
Epiphyllum are epiphytic cacti as their name suggests. Some call them orchid cactus due to their large bright blooms and growth habit.


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Q: How to get a console app to run a function once a month (and not more), indefinitely? Writing a C# app to run some scheduled tasks, all I really need is something to continuously monitor the date and time, and call a function once, on the 28th of each month, and then go back to waiting patiently for the 28th of the next month to come around.
I guess it will be using System.Threading.Thread.Sleep() in some way, but as for the specific conditions under which it should run, and how to prevent it from running multiple times on the date in question, I'm not sure...
Any help greatly appreciated :)

A: You can set up a Windows Scheduled Task to run your console app on the 28th of every month.
It's simple, easy and light on the server's resources since your app wouldn't take up any resources between runs.
If the PC is down, you can also tick the option: "Run task as soon as possible after a scheduled start is missed."
There are a huge number of options for you to customize how your task is run, such as:

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*Only run when a user is logged on.

*Specify program parameters.

*Start the task only if the computer is on AC power.

*Start the task only if the following network connection is available.

Not all option may be available in all versions of Windows.

A: You can use loop which runs each second and checks for the date, and at specified date acts and waits for the next month. You will use System.Threading.Thread.Sleep() to put it on wait for 1 second.
You can wait for the next date by having last date traacked and calculating next date by adding to it 1 monnth.
           DateTime? counter = null;

            while (1 = 1)
            {
                if (DateTime.Now.Day == 28 && (!counter.HasValue || counter.Value.Date < DateTime.Now.Date ))
                {
                    counter = DateTime.Now;

                    DoSomething();
                }

                Thread.Sleep(1000);
            };


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The UK Criminal Finances Act 2017
Sumit Agarwal 06 Jun, 2019 Company News, Agencies
What is Criminal Finances Act 2017
The UK government introduced the Criminal Finances Act 2017 to amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 to broaden the scope to seize the funds to tackle with the properties of the terrorist, deal corrupt practices and money laundering, recovering the income of criminal and counter terrorist financing.
Purpose of The UK Criminal Finance Act 2017
The Act received royal agreement on 27th April 2017. The purpose of the Act is to:
'amend the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002; make provision in connection with terrorist property; create corporate offences for cases where a person associated with a body corporate or partnership facilitates the commission by another person of a tax evasion offence; and for connected purposes.'
Also Read: Tax Fraud
The UK government published the Criminal Finance Act 2017 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2017 ("the Regulations") on 12th October 2017. This Act will influence several other sections of the Criminal Finances Act 2017 (the "Act") on 31 October 2017.
It was in July 13th, 2017 when the first commencement regulations of the Act were announced, and the "failure to prevent the facilitation of tax evasion" crimes were made effective from September 30th 2017.
The Regulations helped a number of sections of the Act come into action that also included the changes to the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 that is regarding the possibilities of the suspicious activity reports ("SARs") regime.
How DNS Accountants Assist for The UK Criminal Finance Act 2017
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from setuptools import setup, find_packages

with open('README.rst') as readme_file:
    readme = readme_file.read()

with open('CHANGELOG.rst') as changelog_file:
    changelog = changelog_file.read()

install_requires = [
    'wagtail>=1.6',
    'twython>=3.0,<4.0',
    'facepy>=1.0.8',
    'wagtailfontawesome>=1.0',
    'requests>=2.0',
    'python-dateutil>=2.5',
    'enum34',
]

test_require = [
    'responses>=0.5',
    'factory-boy>=2.8,<2.9',
    'beautifulsoup4>=4',
    'coverage>=3.7.0',
    'flake8>=2.2.0',
    'isort>=4.2.0',
    'tox>=2.3.1',
    'cryptography==1.4',
    'PyYAML==3.11',
    'bumpversion==0.5.3',
    'wheel==0.29.0',
    'django-coverage-plugin==1.3.1',
]

docs_require = [
    'sphinx',
    'sphinx_rtd_theme',
]

setup(
    name='wagtailsocialfeed',
    version='0.4.1',
    description="A Wagtail module that provides pages and content blocks to show social media feeds", # NOQA
    long_description=readme + '\n\n' + changelog,
    author="Tim Leguijt",
    author_email='info@leguijtict.nl',
    url='https://github.com/LUKKIEN/wagtailsocialfeed',
    packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests*']),
    include_package_data=True,
    install_requires=install_requires,
    license='BSD',
    zip_safe=False,
    keywords='wagtailsocialfeed',
    classifiers=[
        'Development Status :: 2 - Pre-Alpha',
        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
        'Natural Language :: English',
        "Programming Language :: Python :: 2",
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.5',
    ],
    extras_require={
        'testing': test_require,
        'docs': docs_require,
    },
)

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Background: α,α-Trehalase, located on renal proximal tubules, is a glycoprotein that hydrolyses α,α-trehalose to two glucose molecules. Urinary trehalase reflects damage to renal proximal tubules, but its activity has not been measured routinely because measurement of catalytic activity is rather complicated and because conventional assays for enzyme activity might not reflect all of the trehalase protein because of enzyme inactivation in urinary samples.
Methods: We established novel monoclonal antibodies for human trehalase and a sandwich ELISA for quantification of urinary trehalase. We determined the urinary trehalase protein concentration with this ELISA and trehalase catalytic activity, and the results of these two methods were compared.
Results: The ELISA system was more sensitive than the detection of enzyme activity and could detect a subtle difference in the amount of trehalase present in renal diseases. The within- and between-assay CVs in the ELISA were 6.7–7.6% and 6.2–8.2%, respectively. Highly significant increases in both the quantity and activity were seen in patients with nephrotic syndrome (acute phase), Lowe syndrome, and Dent disease. The quantities were 70- to 200-fold greater, whereas enzyme activities were, at most, 10-fold higher than those of control subjects. In the detection of small amounts of trehalase in patients with chronic glomerulonephritis and renal anomalies, quantities were better than enzyme activities.
Conclusions: We have established an ELISA system for quantification of urinary trehalase that uses novel monoclonal antibodies. Our ELISA system is simpler and more sensitive than a conventional activity assay and reflects trehalase protein. This ELISA can be a useful as a common tool for clinical assessment of renal proximal tubular damage.


Cash flow statements report a company's inflows and outflows of cash. This is important because a company needs to have enough cash on hand to pay its expenses and purchase assets. While an income statement can tell you whether a company made a profit, a cash flow statement can tell you whether the company generated cash.
A cash flow statement shows changes over time rather than absolute dollar amounts at a point in time. It uses and reorders the information from a company's balance sheet and income statement.
The bottom line of the cash flow statement shows the net increase or decrease in cash for the period. Generally, cash flow statements are divided into three main parts. Each part reviews the cash flow from one of three types of activities: (1) operating activities; (2) investing activities; and (3) financing activities.
The first part of a cash flow statement analyzes a company's cash flow from net income or losses. For most companies, this section of the cash flow statement reconciles the net income (as shown on the income statement) to the actual cash the company received from or used in its operating activities. To do this, it adjusts net income for any non-cash items (such as adding back depreciation expenses) and adjusts for any cash that was used or provided by other operating assets and liabilities.
The second part of a cash flow statement shows the cash flow from all investing activities, which generally include purchases or sales of long-term assets, such as property, plant and equipment, as well as investment securities. If a company buys a piece of machinery, the cash flow statement would reflect this activity as a cash outflow from investing activities because it used cash. If the company decided to sell off some investments from an investment portfolio, the proceeds from the sales would show up as a cash inflow from investing activities because it provided cash.
The third part of a cash flow statement shows the cash flow from all financing activities. Typical sources of cash flow include cash raised by selling stocks and bonds or borrowing from banks. Likewise, paying back a bank loan would show up as a use of cash flow.
•· Significant accounting policies and practices - Companies are required to disclose the accounting policies that are most important to the portrayal of the company's financial condition and results. These often require management's most difficult, subjective or complex judgments.
•· Income taxes - The footnotes provide detailed information about the company's current and deferred income taxes. The information is broken down by level - federal, state, local and/or foreign, and the main items that affect the company's effective tax rate are described.
•· Pension plans and other retirement programs - The footnotes discuss the company's pension plans and other retirement or post-employment benefit programs. The notes contain specific information about the assets and costs of these programs, and indicate whether and by how much the plans are over- or under-funded.
•· Stock options - The notes also contain information about stock options granted to officers and employees, including the method of accounting for stock-based compensation and the effect of the method on reported results.
Please keep in mind that the above information is being provided for informational purposes only. It is not designed to be complete in all material respects. Thus, it should not be relied upon as legal or investment advice. If the reader has any questions about the contents of this article, you should contact a qualified professional.


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Q: UITableViewAutomaticDimension chopping contents of cell with auto layout constraints to bottom an image is shown in one of the cells.
The image's constraints are as follows:

The height for this cell in heightForRow is set as UITableViewAutomaticDimension. But the image gets chopped off from the bottom. How to resolve this so that the image is shown fully? Thank you.
output is shown as below:

A: As i mentioned in the comment, if you want a self sizing cell, decide which element (or a combination) will determine the height. In your case the image view has a hight constraint, which means, create leading, top and bottom constraint with lower priority than the top one, otherwise IB will complain about the Y position. Then trailing to your label with >= 8 or something like that, then UILabel trailing to super view, and finally Y position for the label, either center in Y or give it a top, or bottom constraint, or both, but either lower priority than for image view or lower hugging priority.
here are the constraints of the image view:

The bottom constraint has lower priority than the top one. The UILabel is centered vertically, so it has no effect on cell size. If you have top and bottom constraints for UIlabel, make sure their priority is lower than the ones of image view ones, or that its hugging priority is lower than image view.
Here is what it looks like in simulator:


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Q: Shard resources by thread? I have a (limited) thread pool which executes CPU-bound tasks.  I'd like to aggregate some numerical statistics from each of these threads in a single place.  Basically: each thread will update some shared stats (e.g. how long its job took) at a very high frequency and, at some much slower interval, a 'stat reader' would query those stats.
My first thought was to use some shared atomics and update them from each thread.  This works ok, but in my testing the overhead of the atomics can get pretty high with a lot of contention so I was trying to think of some other alternatives.
My second though was a sort of 'sharding' scheme, where each thread had its own stats object that it could update without requiring any synchronization.  The 'stat reader' could then aggregate the stats from each thread into an overall stat value.
My first question is: does the thread sharding scheme make sense? Does something like that exist that I'm reinventing?
My second question is: if the sharding scheme does make sense, I'm trying to think of the best way to map threads to their shard:
1) Use the thread's ID mod some shard value to get a shard index, but I don't think that's reliable as I think the thread id value is shared, so I could get a collision.
2) Adding a thread-local index to the thread, but I don't think that will play nicely with the ExecutorService.
3) I could subclass Thread, but then I'd have to cast it when I wanted to access this which I'd rather avoid, if possible.
4) When the thread is created, create a mapping of its name to its shard.  This would work, but there would be a race when creating the threads: one could be looking up its shard while we're adding a new shard to the map, causing concurrency issues.
Wondering if I'm way off-base here and overthinking it (seems like it would be a common problem?) or if one of these schemes does make sense for the use case.

A: I would suggest you use different way: Actor.

The actor model provides a relatively simple but powerful model for designing and implementing applications that can distribute and share work across all system resources—from threads and cores to clusters of servers and data centers. It provides an effective framework for building applications with high levels of concurrency and for increasing levels of resource efficiency. Importantly, the actor model also has well-defined ways for handling errors and failures gracefully, ensuring a level of resilience that isolates issues and prevents cascading failures and massive downtime.

You can turn to Akka i think.

A: One way to solve this is to use the LongAdder class that avoids the contention that plain old atomics suffer from.
A more hand-written approach would be to create some class that holds the statistics you want to gather for each thread, and then have an array of these objects such that each thread's stats object is in array[thread.getId() % NUM_THREADS]. The reader thread can then traverse the array and gather the stats as it pleases.
The trick to getting this to work efficiently is to avoid false sharing. That is, threads on different cores perform updates on their respective objects but those objects happen to reside on the same cacheline, causing massive amounts of unnecessary cache coherence traffic.
In Java 8, there is the @Contended annotation that you might want to look into. The old way of padding your class with a bunch of long fields doesn't work anymore since unused fields will be optimized away.


Dreaming of garlic chives is usually a bad men suggesting that the dreamer will get sick.
Dreaming of eating garlic chives is a harbinger of getting some disease, the dreamer needs to pay attention to family health.
Dreaming of harvesting garlic chives is an ominous sign suggesting bad luck.
For a patient to dream of garlic chives, foretells his own health may get worse.
For a pregnant woman to dream of eating garlic chives, reminds the dreamer to pay attention to her own health.


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British journalist rescued in Basra after two months in captivity
Richard Butler, who worked for the US television network CBS News, was found with a sack over his head and his hands tied inside a house.
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Iraqi troops rescued on Monday a British journalist captured two months ago in the southern port city of Basra, the Iraqi military said. Richard Butler, who worked for the US television network CBS News, was found with a sack over his head and his hands tied inside a house in Basra, Lt. Gen. Mohan al-Fireji said. He said Butler was in good condition. Butler was later shown on Iraqi state television laughing and greeting his rescuers. He was kidnapped along with his Iraqi interpreter on Feb. 10 in Basra. The interpreter was later released. Iraqi police and witnesses said the two men were seized by about eight masked gunmen wielding machine guns who stormed a hotel in the city. CBS confirmed that the journalist had been released but did not immediately provide other details. Butler was found during an Iraqi military sweep in the Jibiliya area, a Shi'ite militia stronghold in Basra, 550 kilometers southeast of Baghdad. Defense ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari told the station that an army patrol conducting a search came under fire from the house where Butler was being held. One of the gunmen was wounded in an exchange of fire and another captured while two men managed to escape, he said. In recent days, Iraqi forces have started house-to-house sweeps for arms, weapons, drugs and criminal elements in several parts of the city. The military said it has uncovered an improvised explosive device factory, along with significant arms caches and numerous roadside bombs, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades. Clashes in Basra have abated since a failed government offensive last month to dislodge militia groups. But sporadic violence has been continuing in the country's oil capital. On Sunday night, unknown gunmen assassinated police Maj. Ali Haider, a commander in the department's serious crimes directorate. Haider was a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, a Shi'ite political party that is part of the governing coalition of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, Basra police Col. Salim Zaydi said. Sporadic clashes also have continued in Baghdad, where Iraqi and US troops have confronted the Mahdi Army militia of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. Dozens have died in the daily violence in the capital's eastern districts. Dozens of stalls in a market area in eastern Baghdad were set ablaze early Monday when a bomb exploded next to a convoy of US military vehicles driving down a commercial thoroughfare. The US military said none of the soldiers involved was seriously hurt in the 2 a.m. blast. More than a dozen US and Iraqi firefighting vehicles rushed to the scene to put out the fire, which continued until morning. Later in the day, another roadside bomb in downtown Baghdad killed five people and wounded nine, police said. The blast missed a police patrol but hit a passing minibus, said a police officer who asked not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The US military said militants firing rocket-propelled grenades ambushed an American patrol in eastern Baghdad late Sunday night. Fire from armed helicopters and an Abrams tank repulsed the attack, killing six of the gunmen, the statement said. The government is demanding that al-Sadr disband his Mahdi Army, which has strongholds in Baghdad's sprawling Sadr City neighborhood, the port city of Basra and other locations in southern Iraq. Elsewhere in Iraq, US soldiers discovered a mass grave near Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, the military said Monday. The grave site, which was unearthed Sunday, contained 20 to 30 badly decomposed bodies that appeared to have been buried nearly eight months, according to the statement. It said the remains would be moved to a nearby cemetery. It was the latest in a series of mass graves discovered as US and Iraqi troops clear former insurgent strongholds amid improved security, allowing stepped up patrols.


Ship 608, is a Boeing 757-200 built in 1985 with Pratt & Whitney PW2037 engines. From 1985 to 2013, the aircraft flew domestic routes for Delta, including service with Song Airlines, Delta's innovative low-cost carrier, from October 2005 to May 2006. Ship 608 retired from service on October 1, 2013, and was stored at the Pinal Airpark in Marana, Arizona. She came out of storage and joined the Delta Flight Museum on April 27, 2014. Today, Ship 608 is part of the retired Delta fleet parked by the Museum Gate that welcomes our visitors.
The Boeing 757-200 sported "new technology wing and engines to give the best fuel mileage of any standard-body airliner" in 1982. On a 500-mile flight, the 757-200 provided approximately 45 percent better fuel efficiency than the Boeing 727 it replaced in the Delta fleet. With its new wing design, fitted with double-slotted trailing flaps, full-span leading edge slats and high thrust engines, the 757 could cruise at a higher altitude than the advanced 727-200, allowing greater fuel savings and use of higher airways.
Delta was launch customer for the Pratt & Whitney PW2037 engine, used on Ship 608, which provided 10 percent more fuel efficiency than earlier Pratt & Whitney JT10D engines offered on the 757. Note: The 757 was initially launched with Rolls Royce engines.
Delta's innovative low-cost carrier Song, which operated from 2003-2006, flew a fleet of specially-configured Boeing 757-200s. The entire cabin was one class with leather seats and a free personal entertainment system at every seat. At the height of its operations in 2005, Song flew 48 Boeing 757-200s to 16 locations. The airline operated over 200 flights at day.
In 2014 before its arrival at the Delta Flight Museum, Ship 608 was painted in its original 1985 livery, which was Delta's longest-worn paint scheme, the "Classic Widget" livery, standard for Delta's fleet from 1968 to 1997.
Ship 608 wore four different Delta liveries during its service from 1985 to 2013, including Song Airlines green-and-white paint from 2005-2007. The other Delta liveries worn were the Classic Widget livery from 1985-2000, Delta's Colors in Motion livery from 2000-2005, and Delta's Onward and Upward livery introduced in 2007.
Museum Blog: See photos of Ship 608 and DC-9-51 Ship 9880 arriving home at the Delta Flight Museum on April 27, 2014.
Flickr: See photos of Ship 608 in various liveries.
Wingspan: 124 ft., 6 in.
Length: 155 ft., 2 in.
Height: 44 ft., 6 in.


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Editorial Content – Latin America's most progressive nation
The Editorial Report published at USA Today
Uruguay is one of the most progressive countries in Latin America and President Mujica's policies have bolstered Uruguay's already pioneering role in social issues.
President Mújica has been called "the world's poorest president" for his humble life style and his small country has made international headlines over recent years.
Uruguay's pioneering decision to regulate marijuana and other reforms such as same-sex marriage and abortion rights led The Economist magazine to vote it "2013 Country of the Year". It was also named the 'second most democratic country in South America' and the continent's 'least corrupt' country.
This editorial report was published in USA Today in August 2014.
Project Director: Marcelo Llaryora


My new book is available to buy now from my Big Cartel shop. Pay via PayPal. Also prints and cards from the book. Please click on the link below.
High quality, limited edition, Giclée prints, printed exactly the same size as the original painting. Approved by the artist. Signed and numbered.
I stood in Helmsley market square this morning, my sketchbook on the car bonnet, gazing skyward. I was watching and sketching Swifts. It is wonderful to see that crescent shape in the sky again after nearly nine months. The Swift watching lead to another, much more unusual observation- three large birds, just white specks against the blue sky were Spoonbills, three of them moving North. I later discovered that three Spoonbills left RSPB St Aiden's reserve near Leeds, heading North East a little over an hour before- the same three? This sheet of studies was painted in Ampleforth this morning. The sky was cloudless and this modest first arrival of Swifts should be joined by many more in the coming days and weeks. In summary I counted 9 over Helmsley, 4 over Ampleforth and none in Gilling East.
My winter has been dominated by Hawfinches. The opportunity to know a single species can be so rewarding and I would not swap this winter for one with a stream of rarities. For as long as I can remember Hawfinches have fascinated me, they are right up there with Swift amongst my favourite species. They have a brutish beauty which is a delight to tackle with pencil or brush, subtle colours boldly arranged and a character which is cartoon like with beady eye and massive beak. The strength of that beak is mythical in birding circles; don't try cracking a cherry or sloe stone with your teeth, easy work for a Hawfinch whose bulky head is full of muscles to operate its stone crusher. When I lived in Wiltshire I watched a pair through a winter and they were elusive and very frustrating at times; hours of observation for a quick glimpse. But this winter has been different. I have been watching flocks of Hawfinches from the Continent. In flocks Hawfinches are more confident, with more watchmen they feel safety in numbers. In recent weeks I have been fortunate to have both a male and a female Hawfinch visit our bird table in Gilling East, North Yorkshire allowing me extremely close views from my studio! Here is a small selection of watercolour studies made this winter. I will be showing more as part of an exhibition at Yorkshire Arboretum in May 2018.
Hawfinch. Watercolour £275 unframed, at my studio.
We moved to Gilling East from Ampleforth in the summer and I now have a studio ready for visitors. I have room to display original framed work as well as cards and prints, but perhaps the most interesting part of visiting an artists studio is to see the work as yet unframed, fresh off the drawing board. You are also welcome to browse my sketchbooks. Fresh coffee is on offer! Visitors are welcome, but please make an appointment first as I am very often in my favourite studio- the North York Moors and Coast. Please telephone 01439 788014 or email jonathan@pomroy.plus.com to arrange a visit. We are in the middle of the village near to the Fairfax Arms which offers good food and ales!


The 10-year interest rate hit the critical level of 3% this morning.
And this is the highest level it's been since 2014 – four years ago. . .
A couple months back, I highlighted the correlation of the rise in the Fed Funds Rate (FFR) and the Interest Payments Due on the U.S. National Debt. And as President Trump and Congress are showing no signs of slowing down their borrowing – this debt service cost will only keep rising.
But the U.S. Treasury will get funded no matter what – foreigners will buy the debt, or the Fed will print dollars to do it. Either way, they will borrow – no matter the cost.
But individuals and companies that borrow aren't as lucky. . .
They're forced to pay the higher interest payments.
So, with interest rates moving up, it would be smart to see what businesses and sectors are most vulnerable to rising yields.
And for this, we need to look at the LIBOR rate. . .
LIBOR stands for London Interbank Offered Rate and is a benchmark rate that the world's leading banks charge each other for short-term lending. It's the first step when calculating interest rates on various kinds of loans – whether government bonds, corporate bonds, mortgages, or student debt.
You might have heard about LIBOR over the last few years. Many of the world's leading financial institutions were caught manipulating the rate for years to profit and protect themselves.
Here's an example: back in the 2007-08 financial meltdown, Barclays Bank manipulated the LIBOR downward. This lowering of rates in a time where rates were trending higher because of global bankruptcy risks gave off the impression that they were 'less' risky.
The LIBOR Scandal is known as one of the greatest financial crimes in history. And banks were hit with many billions in fines.
Bust despite this, the LIBOR rate continues it's role as the primary lending benchmark rate through-out the world. . .
History of the LIBOR rate show's that it's always been slightly more than the Fed Funds Rate. But it usually follows the Fed's lead up or down.
With the Fed raising short term rates, and the U.S. 10 yield eclipsing 3% – debt tied to LIBOR will be greatly affected.
JP Morgan – using the Fed's own data – calculated that there is about $7.5 trillion in pure LIBOR-related debt.
Syndicated loans (loans offered by a group of lenders to provide funds to a single borrower) are 97% tied to the LIBOR rate.
Both corporate and non-corporate business loans and commercial mortgages are about half tied to LIBOR. . .
To put this in perspective, a 35-basis point increase could raise business loan interest costs by $21 billion.
So, with yields rising – both on the short end and the long end of the curve – this could hurt the business sector.
Which means the stock market. . .
Just look at the stocks with high-floating rate debts (adjustable interest) having underperformed the S&P 500 when borrowing costs rose.
The correlation is unmistakable. . .
Unless the Fed completely reverses their tightening strategy – which they inevitably will – things are only going to get worse.
During the low interest rate years, companies could pile on debt to buy time. But once interest rates start rising – things start getting difficult for them.
I think this is becoming more apparent – for instance, Chapter 11 bankruptcies have soared to 7 year highs.
Companies will buckle underneath the rising debt costs.
But if things get too bad, the Fed will come in to save the day by lowering rates to keep these "zombie" companies going.


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Q: How to select all tags in "Export OpenStreetMap topology to SpatiaLite"? When selecting fields to convert is there a way to select all within QGIS? I'm currently alternating space bar and a down arrow and this does not seem to be the most efficient method.

A: You don't mention which version of QGIS you're using. I'm using 2.16.0 and this dialog has a 'select all' option:-

Not used this function for a while now so I'm not sure when this was implemented, although I'm guessing it's probably in QGIS 2.x. but it seems to have been in 2.10 according to this commit
I changed to using QuickOSM plugin (for small areas) or PostGRES/osm2pgsql (for country-sized or larger) based on protobuf extracts (which are much more compact than .osm xml). These are options if you don't have a specific requirement or preference for osm xml/spatialite.


Requests for a pitch or for the rental of a mobile home or chalet imply acceptance of the campsite's terms and conditions below.
In order to book a pitch, please send your reservation by post (at the campsite's address). Initial enquiries can be made by phone (+33 (0)2 31 97 34 43) or by email (info@campinglacapricieuse.com). Mobile homes and chalets can be booked either by postal mail, by telephone, by email or directly online on our website (www.campinglacapricieuse.com). Your request will be recorded upon receipt and a booking contract will be sent to you.
The person making the booking must be over 18 years old, and legally able to enter into a contract in accordance with the present terms and conditions of rental, and guarantee the accuracy of the information. Moreover, the person must be a member of the party ; Contracts are not transferable to another party. Requests for reservations involving minors who are not accompanied by a direct legal representative (father or mother) will be refused.
Please note that the invoice will be addressed to the person whose name was given during the reservation.
The reservation is made for set dates, which can only be modified within the limit of our possibilities.
1. The booking contract must be filled out and sent back to us within 72 hours with a deposit of 25% of the total price of the stay (excluding tourist tax and various supplements mentioned in the price list).
2. Upon receipt of your contract and your deposit, we will send you a confirmation letter which validates your chosen dates of stay and makes the rental contract final and binding.
3. The booking is for set dates, which can only be modified within the limit of our possibilities.
4. Balance of the price : The balance is payable upon arrival, by bank card or in cash, French cheques (made out to « RÉGIE CAMPING LUC-SUR-MER »), or French « chèque vacances ANCV ». In case of payment by cheques vacances, only those with an upper stub will be accepted. No change will be given if the cheque's amount is higher than the price of the stay.
5. Arrival times on site are between 3 :00 pm and 8 :00 pm on the first day of rental. On the last day of rental, accommodations must be vacated before 10 :00 am. During the off season, arrival and departure times can be agreed upon.
6. A 350 € deposit will be requested upon your arrival. The deposit will be returned when you leave if no damage is found and if the premises are in perfect state of cleanliness. Deposits paid in cash will only be returned during opening hours of the reception office. Should you plan on departing before reception opens, please pay your deposit either by bank card or cheque, which will be returned by post.
7. Customers are responsible for cleaning the accommodation. On request, a cleaning service is available for 80 € excluding dishes and household appliances (please inform us the day before). It is necessary, at the latest on the day before your departure, to make an appointment with the reception office in order to carry out the inventory.
8. An inventory list will be sent to you with your confirmation. Claims can be made in case of missing or broken objects, or with regards to the state of cleanliness of the accommodation, within three hours of arrival. After the deadline, you will be held liable.
9. In case of breakage, loss or theft of dishes, the item will be invoiced (according to the 2017 rates in the rental agreement).
10. No gazebos, tents or fences are permitted on the lawn of the rental area. If the size of the pitch permits, an additional vehicle can be accepted, with extra charge.
11.Cancellations : Booking cancellations should be made in writing at the following address : Camping La Capricieuse - 2 rue Brummel - 14530 LUC-SUR-MER. Cancellation requests should be accompanied by supporting documents. For cancellations made at least 30 days before the arrival date, the deposit will be refunded. After this period, no refund will be possible.
12. Towels and bed linen are not supplied. Our accommodation includes pillows and blankets. Disposable sheets are available for sale at the reception office.
13. Baby equipment (high chair and cot) is available for rent.
1. Only the persons named in the booking contract will be allowed to stay on the campsite. Any modification will be accepted at the management's discretion.
2. Upon arrival, it is essential that the party report to the reception office to carry out formalities (settlement of the tourist tax, issue of bracelets for all members of the group). Keys to your accommodation will be given to you once the taxes, supplements and deposit have been paid.
3. No visitor can access the campsite without previously reporting to the reception office in order to present an identity document and pay an entrance fee (if their presence exceeds 2 hours). Visitors should leave their vehicle outside the campsite.
4. All customers must comply with the rules of the campsite, liability insurance is compulsory.
5. In the event that a customer wishes a different accommodation than that provided by the campsite, he may be satisfied within the limits of the management's possibilities. Special requests must be made by the customer at the time of booking. Of course, we will try to accommodate according to our possibilities, without guaranteeing them. No requests made after sending the confirmation of reservation can be taken into consideration.
6. Driving is not permitted on site between 10 :30 pm and 7 :00 am. During that time, access to the campsite is only possible on foot.
7. Customers are asked to wear their wrist bands throughout their stay.
8. Pets are accepted on the campsite's pitches but not permitted in the rental accommodations (mobile home and chalets). The presentation of an up-to-date health record book at the time of arrival is compulsory. First and second category dogs are strictly forbidden. It is forbidden to leave animals alone in your absence. Customers are asked to ensure that any fouling is collected and disposed of, including on neighbouring pitches. Pet waste disposal bags are available at the reception office.
9. CAF vouchers : The campsite is not approved by the French Caisse d'Allocations Familiales and therefore cannot receive any payment in "CAF vouchers". We can however fill a certificate of stay and provide a proof of payment on request if the stay has been booked directly with our campsite. Documents must be provided to us at the beginning of the stay.
10. Management reserves the right to maintain the green areas of the campsite between 10 am and 6 pm from Monday to Saturday, using lawnmowers and hedge trimmers in order to keep the campsite tidy.
11. Complaints. To be taken into account, complaints should be made on site during your stay. Any complaint concerning a stay must be reported to the reception office of the campsite in the first instance so that the problem can be resolved as quickly as possible. And in the second instance, you can address it by email or in writing at the reception of the campsite, within a maximum delay of 8 days after the date of return. No complaint can be dealt with if it has not been mentioned during your stay at the campsite.
12. Behaviour: in the event of non-compliance with the internal rules or repeated disorders, after two oral warnings, the manager may terminate the contract and expel the troublemaker (s).


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Wireless Ethernet - The Next Generation
Originally published March, 2001
by Carlo Kopp
© 2001, 2005 Carlo Kopp
Editor's Note: Wireless Ethernet (802.11) or derivative protocols have been used in a number of military applications, as they are cheap and readily available COTS products. Given their low spreading ratio, or use of COFDM in newer variants, a range of issues arise with jam resistance.
No sooner than the ink dried on the baseline IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet standard, we began to see a plethora of proprietary bit rate extending enhancements to the basic standard, pushing its achievable bit rate out further and further than the modest 1-2 Megabits/s it started at. In this month's feature Carlo Kopp explores one of the latest developments in the IEEE 802.11 saga - the very high speed variants being developed around the COFDM modulation scheme.
At this time wireless Ethernet is a rapidly growing market, as it has proven to be an excellent connectivity tool for laptops, notebooks and various other bits of portable/wearable technogadgetry. Given the boom in mobile phones, it is inevitable that wireless connectivity will become an increasingly popular part of the portable and mobile computing game.
After an initial period during which proprietary products dominated the market, the 802.11 standard was adopted and has become the baseline for this ilk of mobile connectivity (an excellent web primer by Jean Tourrilhes of HP is posted at http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/). While the 900 MHz band achieved some success, most current products are firmly centred in the 2.45 GHz ISM (Industrial-Scientific-Medical) band, for which there is no licensing requirement if the transmitter is appropriately limited in power output (1 Watt, although the definition is really related to the antenna Equivalent Isotropic Radiated Power or EIRP) and band coverage.
The baseline 802.11 offering comes in two forms. The first is the Direct Sequence or Direct Spreading (DS) scheme at 1 or 2 Mbits/s, in which each bit in the binary stream to be transmitted in encoded into an 11-bit Barker code, which is then phase modulated upon a carrier wave. With four mutually orthogonal forms of the 11-bit code, 802.11-DS can have four channels sharing the same bandwidth, in a manner not unlike CDMA telephony.
The second form is the Frequency Hopping (FH) scheme at 1 Mbits/s, in which the band is chopped up into channels, and the carrier is pseudo-randomly hopped between channels, thus spreading the energy of the signal evenly across the band.
The aim of using spread spectrum techniques in 802.11 was twofold, both to allow low power operation with a useful bit rate, and to allow operation in a free-for-all unlicensed portion of the spectrum. In general, wideband spread spectrum systems have significantly better resilience to narrowband interfering signals than conventional narrowband modulations.
Inevitably, users wanted more channel throughput, and thus the race was on to find ways of extending the standard to get higher bit rates, or put simply, squeeze more blood out of the stone. After much haggling between vendors on the committee, an agreement was reached which led to the adoption of the IEEE 802.11-b or 802.11 HR standard, which is an extension of the direct spreading modulation scheme to provide either 5.5 Mbits/s or 11 Mbits/s by imposing an additional modulation on the signal, with some inevitable loss in signal robustness as Shannon predicts. There can be no doubt that 11 Mbits/s in a wireless Ethernet is a useful throughput, and the standard has proven to be very popular in the market, especially for environments needing only small footprints.
Not surprising navigating in the 802.11 marketplace is not a game for the faint-hearted or technologically challenged, since we now have three different derivatives bundled in the same standard, of which only two have a one-way backward compatibility relationship.
The use of spread spectrum techniques for 802.11 was a radical departure from the established wireless communications game, but given the very low spreading ratios resulting from short pseudo-random coding, it has not delivered the level of robustness many users may have expected, after hearing tales of near jam-proof military spread spectrum communications. This was an inevitability, insofar as the robustness of any spread spectrum transmission scheme depends critically upon the spreading ratio between the baseband signal and the modulation on the carrier. In practice, the 10 dB or so offered by 802.11 is not much of a defence against the neighbour's leaky microwave, or ISM-barely-compliant spread spectrum telephone handset.
Interference rejection proved to be one weakness of the established 802.11 protocols, but it is not the only one, as was soon discovered once the product arrived in the market en-masse. Multipath, the curse of analogue television, FM radio in cars and mobile telephony, proved to be just as much of a curse for wireless LANs.
To those who have a strong background in radio-frequency communications, multipath is an inevitable and well understood fact of life in terrestrial transmission. Radio signals propagating along the surface will bounce off obstructions such a buildings or hills, and what a receiver sees at its antenna is a jumble of variously time delayed and variously weakened copies of the signal which left the transmitting antenna. In engineering speak, a vector sum of signals.
What this looks like at the receiver end depends very much on the geometry and relative strengths of the signal received directly, and its delayed copies. The worst case situation is where the delayed signal is just as strong, but delayed by half a carrier cycle, or technically out-of-phase. When this happens, the two signals cancel each other out and the signal fades to nothing, causing a dropout. The term fading, used to describe the deleterious effects of multipath, is aptly chosen.
How well a receiver copes with fading depends on the technology in use, and the severity of the multipath effects. Direct spreading spread spectrum receivers have traditionally performed quite well under modestly severe fading conditions, by using rake receivers, in effect a battery of parallel receivers each of which locks on to one of the multipath delayed copies of the carrier. But even this technique fails if the multipath fading is serious enough, since mutually cancelling or almost cancelling carriers leave very little indeed for a rake receiver to lock on to.
Other alternatives do exist, some of which are very effective. Military GPS receivers use smart adaptive beamforming and nulling antennas, which cleverly point beams at satellites, and antenna nulls at interfering sources, or jammers. Needless to say it doesn't take a genius engineer to figure out that a very nice way to jam GPS is to simply retransmit a time delayed copy of the GPS signal to artificially introduce a serious fading problem. Adaptive beamforming and nulling can pretty much nullify such mischief. The snag? The antenna and its supporting beamforming electronics can cost tens of thousands of dollars, weight several kilograms, and are definitely not a near term candidate for an IEEE 802.11 laptop user, no matter how profligate he or she may be with the departmental IT budget!
Fading has been a thorn in the side of every radio engineer throughout the history of broadcast communications, and inevitably became a subject for much practical and academic research. Some urgency arose with the growth in mobile communications, since there was no simple way of dealing with the problem when using a cheap whip antenna, or other simple omni-directional antenna type.
One of the interesting facts which follows from some thought into the subject is that fading is frequency dependent, as well as spatially dependent. If the propagation path of the interfering copy of the radio wave has some fixed length, retuning the carrier wave will see the fading periodically increase and decrease, as the two carrier waves move in and out of phase with one another. So just as one can drive in and out of an area of severe fading when talking on one's mobile, one could achieve a similar effect by having the transmitters and receivers retune themselves to suppress fading.
Attempting such a scheme is however not a very practical idea, for good engineering but also regulatory reasons. So the big question does remain of how to exploit this aspect of multipath propagation physics to advantage. A very elegant solution does indeed exist, and we can expect to see much more of it in the foreseeable future - COFDM.
Coherent Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (COFDM)
COFDM is the basis of the new European (and soon Australian) High Definition TV broadcast standard, the European Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB) standard, and the new 802.11-a 5 GHz band wireless LAN standard. The in the direction of COFDM, particularly its early adoption in Europe, has much to do with Europe's endemic multipath problems resulting from very high population density and a lot of very hilly terrain. What is an annoyance in urban Australia and the US, and largely a non-issue in most rural areas, is a do-or-die problem for the Europeans.
To best appreciate how COFDM achieves good rejection of multipath fading, it is useful to do a little experiment. Let us contrive a radio link which allows us to retune both ends concurrently, and then let us find a place in the neighbourhood known for horrendous fading problems. What next? We pick a slice of the radio spectrum we intend to work in, and tune the carrier across our frequency range of interest. What we will find is that for a reasonably wide slice of the spectrum, typical for a wideband data signal, we are likely to get some particular patches where multipath bites a lot, and many others where the phase differences cause no pain at all.
Can we think about this effect differently? Let's assume our carrier is modulated in amplitude with a simple high speed binary data stream. It will produce a spectrum with sidebands, and as a result of the multipath fading being frequency dependent, parts of these sidebands will be chopped out or damaged. What happens when we view the recovered data stream? We will see nasty shape distortion, causing some bits to run into their neighbours, not unlike the ugliness we encounter on a cable which distorts signals by suppressing higher frequency components. Different physics, but related consequences.
How can we exploit this behaviour to advantage? If we transmit the data modulation at a much slower bit rate, the distortion will become increasingly less significant. Why? The sidebands contract and less of them fall into the part of the spectrum where the multipath causes them to fade out.
This inevitably leads to the basic idea behind COFDM. Rather than transmitting a very fast digital modulation with redundant data bits on a single carrier, which is vulnerable to fading because the modulation sidebands become damaged, we transmit a very large number of redundant subcarriers each with a very slow modulation. As a result, if fading knocks out one or more subcarriers, we can still recover the data safely, which is not necessarily true of the single carrier/fast modulation scheme. In concept, this is not unlike the comparison between a redundant parallel bus with many wires, against a serial bus with one wire. Parallel busses have always been easier to build for a given throughput, because they can be clocked with data N-times slower for any given bus throughput.
This analogy isn't quite as silly as it may seem, on closer examination, because the problems which kill bus performance arise also from pulse distortion in the transmission medium, in this case a cable. The physics via which the distortion arises may be quite different, but they produce much the same effect at a system level.
A trivial multiple subcarrier FDM system could be simply built by stacking a large number of low speed data modems in parallel, each tuned to its subcarrier frequency, and then suitably multiplexing and demultiplexing the digital data stream going into the system. However, if we want several hundred subcarriers to properly exploit the available benefit, we end up with something which is prohibitively expensive to build and much too bulky for ordinary users.
Modern COFDM systems are affordable and compact, as they exploit some clever idiosyncrasies in the mathematics of the problem.
The origins of COFDM go back to 1971, when a pair of very clever research engineers, Paul Ebert and S. Weinstein, both working for Bell Labs in New Jersey, discovered a curious relationship between the Fourier transform, beloved by engineers, and the behaviour of coherent FDM systems using large numbers of subcarriers. The FDM signal, made up of a large number of coherent (ie having a fixed frequency relationship) subcarriers, could be shown to be the Fourier transform of the digital data stream, and that the behaviour of the stack of coherent demodulators could be described by the inverse Fourier transform. Since Fourier transforms can be crunched on computers, Ebert and Weinstein suggested a new modulator design for this purpose, a completely digital modem built around a special purpose computer performing the fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm (the author is indebted to Dr Chintha Tellambura of Monash Uni for providing a copy of this 1971 paper).
Given the speed and cost of computers during that period, the Ebert-Weinstein modem had to wait three decades before it could be produced economically.
Before practical COFDM systems could be produced, other theoretical refinements had to be developed. In the Ebert-Weinstein model, the data could not be transmitted continuously, since the sidebands of the subcarriers interfered with one another. They dealt with this problem by leaving gaps in the transmission, which was inefficient. The solution to the problem was found in 1980 by NEC research scientist Botaro Hirosaki, who discovered that making the subcarriers orthogonal mathematically, allowed transmission without interference between the sidebands of the subcarriers. The condition for orthogonality was found to be very simple - the spacing of the subcarrier frequencies had to be the inverse of the data symbol period (ie bit cell duration on each subcarrier). If this condition was satisfied, then the system could transmit data on every subcarrier with no intervening gaps.
Thus was born COFDM. Before practical commercial systems could be built, advances had to come in FFT processing. By the 1990s, FFT processor chips reached the cost and performance level where mass production COFDM modems became feasible.
Modern COFDM transceivers rely fundamentally on the availability of high speed signal processing chips, FFT processor chips and analogue/digital and digital/analogue converter chips.
A typical design will see the digital data stream converted into a parallel set of N bits for N subcarriers. It is then used to produce, in software, the phase keyed modulation values for each subcarrier (for readers with an engineering background, this amounts to calculating the respective amplitudes of the real and complex components of each subcarrier, to get the phase angle required to encode the bit value). These are then fed into an FFT chip which performs an inverse FFT into the time domain. These samples are then fed into a digital/analogue converter to produce the modulation envelope for the signal. At the receiver end, the signal is digitised, and the samples fed into a FFT chip to perform the forward FFT transform into the frequency domain, to recover the subcarriers and their respective phase shifts. Once the phase values are established, the bits are recovered and the data stream can be produced.
Since fading may knock out some of the subcarriers, a block coding scheme with some redundancy will be used to recover the data free of errors. This is usually backed up with further data redundancy and error control measures in the data stream.
There can be little doubt that COFDM is the most complex modulation scheme yet to penetrate into the mass production techno-commodity market.
The 802.11-a COFDM Wireless Ethernet
The 5 GHz band 802.11-a standard will provide unprecedented speed for a wireless application - no less than 54 Mbits/s. This is almost five times the throughput of the current 802.11 HR standard, which tops out at 11 Mbits/s under optimal transmission conditions. Since COFDM is used, it is expected that the 802.11-a standard will deliver significantly better robustness in fading environments.
An 802.11-a link requires a modest 20 MHz bandwidth, and encodes 64-subcarriers with the Quadrature Amplitude Modulation envelope carrying the data, using a pair of 64-point FFT chips and a Viterbi encoding scheme. A typical 802.11-a COFDM modem chipset such as the Radiata R-M11a uses 10-bit resolution analogue/digital and digital/analogue conversion at 80 Megasamples/s.
Not to break the well established trend in this market, some manufacturers are already selling designs with proprietary enhancements. The Atheros AR5110 radio-on-a-chip is designed to operate in 802.11-a compliant 54 Mbits/s mode, but also in a proprietary turbo mode of up to 72 Mbits/s, out to 100 feet of distance.
What conclusions can we draw at this stage? The market is still in its infancy, but the throughput advantages of 802.11-a COFDM are so dramatic against the basic 802.11 and enhanced 802.11-a (HR) standards, that we can expect to see a mad scramble by OEMs, WLAN board manufacturers and mainstream computer manufacturers to incorporate the COFDM product at the earliest possible date. Since 802.11-a operates outside the established 2.45 GHz band, virtually all in service WLAN hardware will be effectively obsoleted. Very few 2.45 GHz antennas and cables will perform well at 5 GHz, so we are likely to see a lot of surplus 2.45 GHz equipment appearing on the market over the next 2-3 years.
To yet again paraphrase Larry Niven, it is another case of evolution in action.
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Q: logging a user with HTTParty I have a shi**y API, which returns a broken JSON after GET request with HTTParty.
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Is there any possibility to fix the response's JSON for user to log in and use his account normally?
The alternative I have is using curl inside code, but I want to avoid it

A: Probably you are not sending JSON data.
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With this being the inaugural Drum Corps Challenge, the goals of the organizers are conservative. According to Matt O'Brien, another member of the Cavaliers board of directors, the organizers are hoping to raise $400,000 combined for all of the participating corps. Money is not the only focus, however, as close attention will be paid to the number of visitors and views the Challenge website and the related corps donation websites receive. If the Drum Corps Challenge can demonstrate strong levels of web traffic, it is possible that corporations could join in for future challenges with matching donations or even sponsorships of the drum corps activity in general.
Just because the Drum Corps Challenge is taking place, though, doesn't mean that there can't be a little action on the side. Corps are encouraged to hold mini challenges similar to the Backyard Brawl format to encourage higher levels of participation from their respective fans and alumni. These mini challenges would take place for 1 to 2 days during the Drum Corps Challenge week and their results would count towards both the mini challenge as well as the overall fundraising event.
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We humans are an interesting bunch. We will sit for hours watching other people have amazing adventures and wonderful lives but when it comes to seeing this same magic happen in our own lives we will come up with every excuse in the book to just sit back and coast.
Yet if we examine our lives we will usually see that while we say we are broke we actually have money for everything else from beer to coffee to vacations and so on, but when it comes to making our lives into the dream we would love to see we are habitually negligent in our actions. We squander our money on things we don't need. We waste away our time doing things that give us nothing. We say we want something but do things that take us the exact opposite direction.
You know why we look at people who do incredible things with their lives and go, "Wow!" — it is because we have become so numb to the possibility of creating an amazing life for ourself that anyone who has done so seem like they are somehow on the next level.
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What I love about Jiu-Jitsu is the power it has to create change in the lives of people. You might be a tiny girl, a middle aged man, a housewife, a student — it doesn't matter — Jiu-Jitsu will make you into a warrior. I've seen it first hand and not just once but over and over again.
Jiu-Jitsu empowers us in a way that few things in life can. It doesn't depend on power or strength or cardio. It teaches you to use what you have in this moment. It shows you that there is a way out of every situation that you get yourself into. It gives you the tools to make you able to build an impenetrable shield around you that nobody can enter into to harm you. It gives you confidence. It gives you a sense of peace. It gives you more than you would ever expect.
There is only one thing that Jiu-Jitsu asks of you. It asks you to come play. It doesn't matter if you just lost your job or are cringing when you think of how old you are now. It doesn't care if you think you need to lose weight or have a hard time keeping the weight on.
While I've been involved with the martial arts for over three decades it wasn't until I started training in Jiu-Jitsu in my forties that I truly understood what a martial art can really do for someone. I think it was the act of putting on the white belt again but this time as a mature man that made the difference. It probably didn't hurt that I was blessed to be taught Jiu-Jitsu by true legends of the art through the Jean Jacques Machado Academy and the Inosanto Academy in Los Angeles. When you have the likes of Professor Jean Jacques Machado and Professor Jay Zeballos showing you The Way you can't really go wrong. Over the years I have had the great fortune to train with others who have blown my mind like Professor Boaz Brizman and Professor Gary Padilla. What they all share is one similar thing — that Jiu-Jitsu has transformed their lives into something that you have to experience to understand.
Jiu-Jitsu will change your life if you let it. It is a long path — you will be forced to look at yourself, your life, your baggage and make some decisions that other people who don't train would never even consider. You will change as a person in ways that you will only understand when you look back on the years that have passed since you first started training and see how far you have come. You will become someone who is different from everyone else around you and you will know it right down to the marrow in your bones and you'll carry that with you through life, like the most amazing custom-made jacket which makes you into some kind of superhero.
You will find, as I have found, that Jiu-Jitsu people — true Jiu-Jitsu people — are different. You will find yourself in a family — a band of brothers and sisters — people who you have gone to war with, sweat with, hurt with, laughed with and maybe even shed a few tears with. The reason is that Jiu-Jitsu will never lie to you. Jiu-Jitsu is honest, powerful, life-changing.
Find yourself a good school with good teachers.
Understand that Jiu-Jitsu is not about earning medals and trophies.
Understand that Jiu-Jitsu is not about beating people down.
Understand that Jiu-Jitsu is about building people up from the ground floor. It is about maturity and honesty and helping and community and hard-work.
You'll know when you have found the right place because it will feel like coming home.
You will know when you are with the right people because they will be your family and when they are not around you will feel the hole in your life without them.
You will know that Jiu-Jitsu is right for you because you will crave the mats, the Gi, your beat up belt.
Jiu-Jitsu will give you everything that you could want in your life.
Doesn't that sound like something you need?
We only have one lifetime. Don't squander yours. Make it incredible. Build a family. Do great things. Make something out of your life.
Jiu-Jitsu will get you there. Trust it.
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